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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Crack a Bottle - i.e. drink one. The allusion is to the mischievous pranks of the drunken frolics of times gone by, when the bottles and glasses were broken during the bout. Miss Oldbuck says, in reference to the same custom, "We never were glass-breakers in this house, Mr. Lovel" (Antiquary); meaning they were not bottle-crackers, or given to drunken orgies. (See Crush.) "Dear Tom, this brown jug that now foams with mild ale, From which I now drink to sweet Nan of the Vale, Was once Toby Filpot's, a thirsty old soul As e'er cracked a bottle, or fathomed a bowl." O'Keefe: Poor Soldier. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: CRACK A BOTTLE |
| Specialty definitions using "CRACK A BOTTLE": Glass Breaker. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off; (drink up); go to the alehouse, go to the public house. |
Food | Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle. |
Sociality | Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "CRACK A BOTTLE": To crack a bottle. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CRACK A BOTTLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | megiszik egy üveg italt vkivel (to crack a bottle with sy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackcray aay ottlebay knäcka en flaska. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-k-l-o-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: rotatable, tractable. | |
-4 letters: acrolect, albacore, attacker, bracteal, bractlet, brocatel, cabretta, caracole, cartable, coatrack, reattack. | |
-5 letters: abettal, abettor, abreact, acerola, acrobat, actable, baccate, battler, bearcat, becloak, blacker, blatter, bloater, blocker, blotter, bottler, bracket, brattle, brocket, cabaret, cackler, calotte, caracol, catboat, cattalo, clacker, clatter, cloacae, clocker, coracle, crackle, crocket, earlock, lactate, locater, oatcake, ratable, tabaret. | |
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